Christopher Athey Email & Phone Number

Geneva, Switzerland

• Leading on UNECE Innovation for Sustainable Development Reviews of Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Moldova;• UNECE Secretary to the joint UNECE/ESCAP Working Group on Innovation and Technology for Sustainable Development in Central Asia, including developing a subregional Strategy on Innovation for Sustainable Development, a Handbook on Business Incubators for Sustainable Development and developing best practice guidance on New Industrial Policy to promote innovation for sustainable development in the sub-region;• Gender focal point for the UNECE subprogramme on Economic Cooperation and Integration.

London, United Kingdom

• Quality control of investment appraisals, tender evaluation strategies and evaluation plans for major projects and contributing to scrutiny reports considered by the Investment Approvals Committee and Ministers; • Managing a small team of accountants and Assistant Economists dealing with a large number of cases; • Providing advice on the application of investment appraisal methodology to Project Teams, with particular responsibility for value for money; • Development and updating of investment appraisal methodology.

Geneva, Switzerland

• Innovation Performance Reviews of Ukraine, Armenia and Tajikistan, including liaison with permanent missions and relevant national institutions, fund-raising, recruiting external consultants, coordinating missions, reviewing contributions, drafting chapters / recommendations, editing and finalising publications and submitting for approval to the relevant intergovernmental committees;• Follow-up and monitoring implementation of the Innovation Performance Reviews of Belarus and Kazakhstan;• Led drafting of a Communications Strategy for UNECE by a Communications Task Force;• Improved stakeholder outreach and communications, for example through bilingual web pages (English/Russian) on the Innovation Performance Review series and a UN Development Account Project on Green Technologies in Central Asia;• Organization of a range of intergovernmental meetings, including the ECE Committee on Economic Cooperation and Integration and the Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies;• UNECE Secretary to the joint UNECE/ESCAP Working Group on Knowledge-based Development in Central Asia.

Geneva, Switzerland

• Innovation Performance Reviews of Belarus and Kazakhstan;• Project managing a Business Forum as part of "PPP Days 2012", held jointly by the UNECE, World Bank Institute and Asian Development Bank in Geneva. This was the first time a Business Forum had been included as part of "PPP Days";• Coordinating the UNECE publication "Innovation in the Services Sector";• Support in organizing a range of inter-governmental meetings, including the ECE Committee on Economic Cooperation and Integration and the Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies;• Support in organizing a range of conferences, including “Promoting Eco-innovation: Policies and Opportunities”, “Intellectual Property and Competition Policy”, and “Building Strategies for Regions of Innovation”;• Project managing migration of the divisional website from a Dreamweaver platform to TYPO3.

London, United Kingdom

• Analysis and briefing on developments in the UK housing, construction and mortgage markets, and analytical support to the Government response to the Rugg Review of the private rented sector;• Policy appraisal and evaluation, modelling of UK housing supply, and implications for affordability;• Lead analyst during the annual pre-Budget and Budget processes on policy measures relating to the house building and private rented sectors and their value for money, and fiscal measures pertaining to private rental housing (liaison with HM Treasury). The latter included securing a change in the stamp duty land tax regime to encourage institutional investment in new build rental accommodation;• Lead author on the house building and private rented sectors for the ministry wide "Housing Futures" strategic policy review;• Appraisal of policy options to improve energy efficiency in the private rented and new build housing sectors;• Bidding for funding, competitive tendering and project management of externally commissioned research projects (annual budget $200k) on the house building and private rented sectors.

London, United Kingdom

• Partial equilibrium modeling of agricultural markets, including using the OECD’s AgLink model, and UNCTAD's Agricultural Trade Policy Simulation Model (ATPSM);• Representation of UK at OECD Working Party on Agriculture & Joint Working Party on Agriculture/Trade;• Economic advice to inform UK position during the European Commission’s CAP ‘Health Check’ and WTO Doha Round of negotiations on agriculture.

London, United Kingdom

• Economic advice on UK ports and shipping policy; analysis feeding in to a European Commission consultation on future EU ports policy (including authoring UK position papers on "Spatial Planning" and "State Aid" aspects of EU ports policy);• Economic appraisal of grant applications for modal shift of freight from road to water, and from road to rail, including liaising with external consultants to quantify expected costs and benefits;• Analytical support in considering potential inclusion of the shipping sector in EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS);• Aviation policy project work, including a review of the Aviation Directorate’s Evidence and Research Strategy; and project work developing emergency contingency plans for the UK aviation sector.

London, United Kingdom

• Analysis of UK’s rural postal network, and impact of closures in rural areas. This included leading on analytical support to an inter-departmental working group between five ministries;• Provision of economic advice and statistics to independent Affordable Rural Housing Commission;• Steering group participation on a range of academic studies in DEFRA’s Rural Research.

Master Of Arts - Ma, European Economic Studies, Très Bien

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics, First Class Honours